LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Bamidele Salam, has raised the alarm that the contradictions in the Nigerian system have become so bad that public job slots are now being sold at exorbitant prices. According to him, they are now being sold for between N500,000 and N3m. He noted this…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Reverend Father, Rev. Fr. Joachim Cabanyes, of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu has died of COVID-19 related complications. This was made known in a statement released by Rev. Fr. Nkemjika Igweshi, Secretary to Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, Bishop of the Diocese. He died at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital isolation…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on Monday. The king, who has ruled the world’s largest oil exporter and close U.S. ally since 2015, was undergoing medical checks, the…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to contract the new coronavirus. Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 test because of a throat irritation. “Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A non-partisan pressure group comprising lecturers in tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Academic Frontiers Initiative (AFI), has expressed satisfaction over the quality of aspirants for the Anambra 2021 gubernatorial elections, even as it bemoaned the woes bedeviling the state as a result of poor leadership. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator,…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Friday said it has taken two persons into custody following the death of Nigeria’s first and only female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, 24, who died from injuries sustained in a freak car accident inside the NAF base in Kaduna last Tuesday. The fallen…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian musician, Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, aka Patoranking, has awarded 10 Africans a full scholarship. According to reports, the 10 Africans were nominated from hundreds of applications from various young people across the continent. Patoranking took to his Instagram page to announce this on Friday. He wrote: “The Patoranking Scholars will be rewarded…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command has lost three constables who drowned in a bridge washed away by flood on Balogun Street in Oyo town. The policemen, attached from Oyo Atiba Police Division, trailed some hoodlums to the area when the thugs started running towards the bridge. According to an eyewitness, one of…
